# C.H.U.D. (1984)

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**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Horror, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Douglas Cheek
**Written by**: Parnell Hall, Shepard Abbott
**Starring**: John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, Kim Greist, Laure Mattos, Brenda Currin

> *They're not staying down there anymore!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Manhole cover trembles in a July heatwave. Rats scurry past a discarded newspaper screaming of missing persons. A nun’s habit, stiff with dried blood, snags on a subway grate.  
Photographer flashes his camera into the dark mouth of a tunnel while a cop grips a shotgun beside a hobo muttering about government meat.  
Like John Carpenter directing Tod Browning’s Freaks on a municipal budget.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, raw, unhinged

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